“Speak your dreams, no one climbs a mountain accidentally.”
Kent Thiry (1956) Business; CEO of DaVita
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“Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.”
— Dorothy L. Sayers, book Whose Body?
Source: Whose Body?
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